Process

Work
Management

The single highest-leverage discipline in maintenance. Get this right and everything else — PMs, inventory, reliability — gets easier. Get it wrong and nothing else really sticks.

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Overview

From Reactive to Planned

Most maintenance organizations spend 40–60% of their wrench time on reactive work. They know it's wrong. They can't seem to stop. The reason is almost never effort — it's that the work management process itself isn't designed to surface, plan, and schedule work proactively.

We build that process with you. Not a generic playbook — the specific identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and closeout flow that fits your CMMS, your shift structure, your operations counterpart, and the cultural reality of your plant.

The Discipline

Five Steps, Done Well, Every Day

Work management isn't a project — it's a daily, weekly, and monthly cadence. We design each step and the handoffs between them, then build the muscle to run it without us.

Step 1

Identify

Defect tagging, operator-driven notifications, condition-based triggers, and a healthy backlog — not as failure, but as raw material for proactive work.

Step 2

Plan

Job plans with the right scope, parts, tools, permits, and time estimates. The standard: a tech walks up to the job and has everything to do it once, well.

Step 3

Schedule

Weekly schedules built and committed with operations as a partner, not an obstacle. Daily schedule discipline that protects the work.

Step 4

Execute

Schedule compliance, supervisor accountability, and the conditions that let craftspeople actually do the work the plan called for.

Step 5

Closeout & Improve

Honest history, time-on-tool data, plan accuracy review, and the feedback loop that makes next week's plans better than this week's.

Cross-cutting

KPIs & Cadence

Schedule compliance, planned vs. reactive ratio, wrench time, backlog health — the four numbers leadership should know cold, reviewed on a fixed cadence.

Engagement Model

What We Do Together

We bring

Process Design & Coaching

A proven workflow, adapted to your reality. Side-by-side coaching of planners and supervisors. Templates, training, and the discipline-builder cadence that makes the change stick.

You bring

People & Decision Authority

Your maintenance leadership, your planners, an operations counterpart who'll partner on schedule discipline, and the authority to actually change how work gets done.

Typical Outcomes Within 6–12 Months

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85^%+

schedule compliance

Up from typical 30–50% baseline

2^×

wrench time on tool

Driven by planning and parts availability

70^%+

planned and scheduled work

Proactive work mix, not reactive

25^%+